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lady ga ga song Born This Way
HI GIRLS
I was on my way to work the other day and this song came on the Radio .
I love all sort of music and this song is very interesting and worth a listen but caught a few words in it DRAG and Queen has any one else heard this song .
On another note a Thai Airline PC AIR has employed 30 Lady Boys Transexuals now thats a good thing .A small article in saturday’s Telegraph
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Full lyrics –
It doesn’t matter if you love him, or capital H-I-M
Just put your paws up
‘Cause you were born this way, babyMy mama told me when I was young
We are all born superstars
She rolled my hair and put my lipstick on
In the glass of her boudoir“There’s nothin’ wrong with lovin’ who you are”
She said, “‘Cause He made you perfect, babe”
“So hold your head up, girl and you you’ll go far,
Listen to me when I say”I’m beautiful in my way,
‘Cause God makes no mistakes
I’m on the right track, baby
I was born this wayDon’t hide yourself in regret,
Just love yourself and you’re set
I’m on the right track, baby
I was born this way
(Born this way)Ooo, there ain’t no other way
Baby, I was born this way
Baby, I was born this way
Ooo, there ain’t other way
Baby, I was born this way
I’m on the right track, baby
I was born this wayDon’t be a drag, just be a queen
Don’t be a drag, just be a queen
Don’t be a drag, just be a queen
Don’t be!Give yourself prudence and love your friends
Subway kid, rejoice the truth
In the religion of the insecure
I must be myself, respect my youthA different lover is not a sin
Believe capital H-I-M (hey, hey, hey)
I love my life, I love this record and
Mi amore vole fe yahI’m beautiful in my way,
‘Cause God makes no mistakes
I’m on the right track, baby
I was born this wayDon’t hide yourself in regret,
Just love yourself and you’re set
I’m on the right track, baby
I was born this wayOoo, there ain’t no other way
Baby, I was born this way
Baby, I was born this way
Ooo, there ain’t other way
Baby, I was born way
I’m on the right track, baby
I was born this wayDon’t be drag, just be a queen
Whether you’re broke or evergreen
You’re black, white, beige, chola descent
You’re lebanese, you’re orient
Whether life’s disabilities
Left you outcast, bullied or teased
Rejoice and love yourself today
‘Cause baby, you were born this wayNo matter gay, straight or bi
lesbian, transgendered life
I’m on the right track, baby
I was born to survive
No matter black, white or beige
chola or orient made
I’m on the right track, baby
I was born to be braveI’m beautiful in my way
‘Cause God makes no mistakes
I’m on the right track, baby
I was born this wayDon’t hide yourself in regret,
Just love yourself and you’re set
I’m on the right track, baby
I was born this way, yeah!Ooo, there ain’t no other way
Baby, I was born this way
Baby, I was born this way
Ooo, there ain’t other way
Baby, I was born this way
I’m on the right track, baby
I was born this wayI was born this way, hey!
I was born this wayy, hey!
I’m on the right track, baby
I was born this way, hey!I was born this way, hey!
I was born this way, hey!
I’m on the right track, baby
I was born this way, hey!personally, i think she’s amazing. a talented musician, politically astute, and her concert last year was one the best i have ever been to (and i’ve seen a few). we should be very grateful she is on our side and fighting the good fight, telling the world about the unfairness that we have to put up with because of lack of education. if you encounter any gaga haters, just ask them what’s so bad about standing up for yourself, and what does it take to get the straight world to acccept and understand.
virginia xo
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The story about what the airline is doing was posted in the Transgender News section of this forum for anyone who missed it.
Peta A.
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not saying it’s mine, mind you (I don’t know much about Lady Ga Ga or her music). I caught it on Helen Boyd’s site ‘engender (http://networkedblogs.com/dDIyR):
http://midwestgenderqueer.com/index.php/archives/1041
Lady Gaga Doesn’t Get It
posted by: JACYes, that’s right. At the risk of being black balled from the queer scene entirely, I have something critical to say about Lady Gaga. Now, I like Lady Gaga’s music; I listen to it on a regular basis, I like her queery genderfucking costuming, and I plot multiple drag numbers to her songs. Upon first discovering her, I figured she was queer and was taking her identity to fuck with society, good for her. But now its become apparent that this ‘Lady Gaga’ experience is more complicated that just her being one of us.
In an interview by Times Online this past weekend, Gaga is described as having “legendary” devotion and promotion of “gay culture.” First of all, I think you gotta be around longer than a few years to be legendary. Second, I definitely was not aware that Lady Gaga had been appointed our PR rep. Gaga is described AND describes herself like she is the mother AND savior of queers everywhere, but when it comes to her listing “all the freaks” that she parents she names gay and lesbian men and women, but not even her own community of bisexuals! And as usual us trans kids aren’t included, or maybe we are absorbed into the greater “gay.” Surprise, surprise.
Third, and most importantly, what exactly is “gay culture?” I didn’t know there was one big “gay culture” that all of us fit into. Last time I checked all “gay” people aren’t homogeneously living in one bubble of fads, fashion, and fabulousness. (The word does has homo in it, so maybe that’s where they made the mistake.) The author, who has a crush on Gaga so obvious that I didn’t know if I was reading a legit article or a 15 year old’s diary, talks about Gaga like she is a superhero or a ghost – hence describing her as legendary. The article records a trip to a Berlin bar/sex-club, describing the people there by listing the most culturally ‘shocking’ elements, just to make sure the reader knows this is a place where GAY PEOPLE hang out and have chain and leather studded SEX. Gaga is described as follows:
“Bisexual herself, while her musical education might have been classical, her cultural education was homosexual.. .”
Her “cultural education was homosexual”? Can someone please tell me what the fuck that means? What, so she grew up around homos? She was born in a gay bar? Please tell me, cause I can’t even begin to rant about what the fuck this is about. So I’ll just move on to the next topic. Gaga discusses feminism, stating that feminism is about “protecting who [women] are, down to the core.” Which she then connected to her interest in a transman who played a role in her video Telephone. I assume that here she is trying to support trans identities through all this- saying that based on her feminist principles, a woman has a right to be herself, even if herself is actually himself. If she were talking about me I wouldn’t consider that to be an ideal thought process, but others may not have a problem with it. It could be worse. But then she describes the guy as such:
“…the girl I kiss… lives as a man. And as someone who does like women, something about a more masculine woman makes me feel more… feminine.”
But hey Gaga, new flash he isn’t a masculine woman, he’s a man. [5.25.10 Correction: the person in question here is not a transguy, but I stand by my assertion about her apparent concept of female masculinity. And since the person she is describing is indeed not male identified, then what does she mean by ‘lives as a man?’ Gender role stereotype anyone? If she isn’t a man, then how can she live as one? Or does she, or in Gag’s view, just live like one and its an issue of semantics?] Clearly she doesn’t know shit about trans identities. So much for being the mother of all the freaks. She can’t even tell us apart. You may argue “Nobody’s perfect or always says the right thing,” but like as not you say that because your identity is probably not the one being fucked up here. If she’s gonna claim to be some awesome freak-icon, she should know her shit. If she likes us so much, fucking educate yourself. Gaga says that her new video for the song ‘Alejandro’ is “a celebration and an admiration of gay love” but then she says that it is also about:
“the purity of my friendships with my gay friends… And how I’ve been unable to find that with a straight man in my life… I’m pining for the love of my gay friends – but they just don’t want me.”
Ok, so Gaga can’t get a boyfriend (guess she isn’t looking for a gf) and so she swoons over her gay guy friends who aren’t interested. Honestly, this sounds more like an anthem for straight people than for queers. So thanks for the attention Gaga, but really this is about you not us and our “gay love” – which is apparently different than straight love. But that isn’t the worst of it. Gaga says that the song
“…confesses my [Gaga’s] envy of the courage and bravery they require to be together.”
Let me get this, so Gaga is JEALOUS that we, queer people, have to fight against society to be together. She is jealous of our OPPRESSION. She thinks its cool to be gay; our struggles are fascinating and romantic to her. She is dreaming of being tortured by some Romeo and Juliet-like love, jealous of our pain like some angsty teenager who is trying to find some purpose in life. She dramatizes our fight to live our lives as a fantastical melodrama that she admittedly wants to be apart of. How the hell is that not a mother fuckin’ problem? Why don’t we just set up some cages on the side of the road so Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Kathy Griffin, and all the other lookie-loos can stop by and pretend to be a part of the ‘gay’ struggle. We can sell “gay? fine by me” t-shirts and host how-to sessions on how to be a pop-culture friend to the gays, hosted by Lady Gaga, PhD in Homosexual Cultural Education. People entertain themselves as being “devoted” to us and “promoting” us (whatever that means) but really, they just thinks we’re neat and wants to eat lunch with us. They call themselves allies but like Kate says, we don’t need allies we need members. I know plenty heterosexual people who are bigger and better queers than some folks who wear a supposed ‘gay identity’ or claim ‘ally’ but don’t know their ass from their elbow about us or our communities. Like straight people who want to be friends with queers because it gives them brownie points. I really think I should just start asking for cash. And as society gets more “liberal” and the demand for ‘token gays’ increases we can expand the trade; Token work, trading social relationships for money. Its the next generation of queer prostitution, brought to you by capitalist liberalism.
I am certain that Gaga is dedicated to queer people in whatever way she feels is best, but I am more certain that she is obsessed with gays like a fashion trend. It isn’t bad to want to be in a community were she feels she belongs, or to identify with the struggles of others. But that empathy isn’t her her method here, its her fucked up envy. She is mistaking romanticizing our experiences as an oppressed people with solidarity, and that is dangerous. You may say, “Well she does a better job than Katy Perry.” Yeah that’s true, because anyone would do better than that homophobic, bad-hair-color-havin’ poser. I’m sick of people thinking they are so fabulously savy about queer stuff just because they have a queer sexual orientation stapled to their heterosexual privilege. It is obvious that Gaga is only thinking about gay, non-trans men in her scope of ‘gay culture,’ though she mentions lesbians, anyone with half a brain would know that gay men and lesbians have a very different cultures, albeit we are all in the same greater queer community. Lets call this like it is, she’s a god damned musician who is working through her shit through her music, and she just happens to be bisexual. Big whoop. She isn’t doing anything that Madonna or Marylin Manson didn’t do before her as far as advocacy, genderfucking, raising up out-casts, or political-sexual visibility. I’m still gonna do a number to one of her songs, and maybe more than one, cause its not like she’s a monster like Katy Perry. But Lady Gaga doesn’t fucking get it. If she did she wouldn’t be a dumbass and think being in a violently oppressed community was equal to a star-crossed love-story. She needs to check herselfon what our reality really is. And if queer people want an icon for a media revolution we have to make it ourselves, not leave it to the gay-fans who treat us like side show acts or museum pieces.
cheers
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thanks for posting that article, sara (hope things are well for you).
well, i gotta say, i don’t agree with what this JAC writes. i’m no intellectual giant (like some people make themselves out to be), but to me gaga does support the entire lgbtqi community (listen to the song). at the outset of her career, she had the “i” label thrown at her. she lived through that and used it to point out how discriminatory it is to use these labels in a demeaning way.
so if you want a gay icon, who do you point to? madonna and marilyn manson have done nothing, and probably fall into exactly the same critical traps that JAC sets up for gaga. kylie? truly lightweight in comparison. cyndi lauper? she’s had a head start, but gaga is catching fast.
it’s easy to knock them down, but not so easy putting up someone who fits the bill. who else is putting out material like this and having millions buy it? it’s a good thing, no? prefer justin bieber, black eye peas or pink? they don’t come anywhere near what gaga is doing by any measure, in terms of promoting acceptance of alternative lifestyles.
to me, gaga is successfully spreading the word. and it’s working. check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG0wi1m-89o
ten years old. the message is getting through to the younger ones. that can’t be bad thing, can it? actually, in my mind, that is one of the corner stones to future acceptance and understanding, and making this planet a better place. but hey, everyone is entitled to an opinion.
oh, and …
elton john calls gaga ” the most adventurous and talented star of our age”.
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I just hope the DJ at Transformal will have ‘Born This Way’ on the playlist!
(several times hopefully 😉 )I love dancing to ‘boppy’ tunes and I love Lady Gaga’s music!
Clare.
